Out of the Park Baseball 9 Released

This one’s for the stat nerds out there. The type of fan who would rather read a box score than watch a game, who spends more time tweaking their fantasy team than sleeping, who can calculate VORP in their head. You know who you are.

On the off chance you stat nerds don’t know already, Out of the Park Baseball is a long-running series of stat-based baseball management sims for the PC and Mac. There’s no actual baseball in them in the traditional sense, bats don’t crack and the graphics are limited to player portraits and still shots of fields. Everything is a series of numbers, from scouting to games to lineups to every other minute detail about the game of baseball. And they’ve just released the ninth installment which, in addition to including 2008 opening day Major League rosters, now includes fights and suspensions, tracking of streaks, better scouting and more saved stats.

If that paragraph didn’t scare you off immediately you really have to download the demo. It’s extremely addictive if you see baseball as a math problem anyway and pretty easy to learn if you put some time into it.